Piotrków Trybunalski, in central Poland, first chronicled…

Piotrków Trybunalski, in central Poland, first chronicled in the thirteenth century when it obtained town rights, in 1578 becomes the seat of the Polish tribunal, after which it is named, and the meeting place of the diets (assemblies) and synods.

Cloth manufacture had begun here in the fifteenth century.